In Chicago, New Orleans and beyond, elated worshipers and priests celebrated their immediate sense of connection with Pope ...

The pope entered the church and stopped to pray, first in front of the altar and then in front of the image of the Virgin ...

Every pope brings a distinct vision and agenda for leading the church. Making change is difficult in the Catholic Church, but ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

"It's been an unbelievable week, obviously, for all of us," said Mark Duffey, who was ordained as a deacon at St. Thomas of ...

Seminarian Nickolas Naticchione kneels before Bishop Joseph A. Williams during Mass on May 10 at Saint James Church, Holy ...

Permanent deacons who minister in the Diocese of Rochester and elsewhere are celebrating milestone anniversaries of ...

Transitional Deacon Alex Hall said he first felt the call to be a priest when he was in elementary school. Bishop Michael Izen was then Father Izen, the pastor of Deacon Hall’s parish, St. Timothy in ...

Scholars have shown that women were sacramentally ordained as deacons in the early church and this practice was never officially banned. As I lea ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday in the Sistine Chapel where he was elected less than ...

For the first time in history, the College of Cardinals has chosen an American pope, Robert Francis Prevost, who chose the ...

As millions celebrated the announcement of the first American pope, one Portland Catholic priest was cheering on his former ...